Institute of Philosophy and Art History

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The institute consists of two departments: philosophy and art history.

Main research areas

Since the winter semester 2016/17, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has established a DFG Research Training Group, "Cultures of Critique. Forms, Media, Effects", in which the IPK is significantly involved (speaker: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen).

The Institute is also represented at the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies for Culture and Society (co-director: Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb) and is significantly involved in the Center for Critical Studies (speaker: Dr. Ben Trott).

With the Lichtenberg Professorship (Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Leuphana University has the first permanent full professorship dedicated entirely to questions of provenance research, looted art, and restitution.

The Kunstraum, which is connected to the Institute of Philosophy and Art History, offers a close practical connection to contemporary art and its actors.

  1. 2025
  2. 2025 Conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society

    Costa, M. T. (Speaker)

    17.09.202520.09.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  3. Gender, Sexuality and Contentious Speech Today

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    15.09.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Ecologies of Recovery: Complexifying Notions of Connectivity and Resistance in a More-Than-Human World

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    24.07.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Beyond Notions of Periphery and Center: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    18.07.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  6. Material Ecologies: Architecture, Objects, and Ornamentation along the East African Coast

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    03.07.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Power, Resistance, Fascism: Re-reading Foucault in the Present (LIAS Workshop)

    Demirović, A. (Speaker), Karakayali, S. (Organiser), Nigro, R. (Organiser) & Luxon, N. (Organiser)

    25.06.202526.06.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. From Archives to Activism: Using Data to Challenge Structures in Art Collections

    Romero, B. (Speaker) & Medina Fortes, L. (Speaker)

    24.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  9. Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies - Workshop for Doctoral Candidates

    Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)

    24.06.202525.06.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Between Siena and the Swahili Coast: Afro-Eurasian Entanglements and Artistic Dynamics

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    20.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Between Connections and Knowledge: An Approach to Culture through Graph Theory and Complex Systems

    Romero, B. (Speaker)

    17.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Vibe Coding para humanistas. Perdiendo el miedo a la IA

    Romero, B. (Speaker)

    05.06.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  13. "Branches of an Imaginary Marimba". Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the Nation-State in Contemporary Art Practice

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    30.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  14. Il y a ‚de la‘ plèbe. La fabbrica della marginalizzazione e il rifiuto del neopopulismo

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    22.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Crisi e ritorni dello Stato

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    18.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  16. L’irruzione dei saperi minoritari

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    16.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Du refus du travail à la multitude. Le néopéraisme d’Antonio Negri

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    15.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. Postsecular Reckonings

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    14.05.202515.05.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Zur Aktualität der Queer Studies (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    25.04.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  20. Black Archive Alliance: Epistemologies of Absence and Presence

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    24.04.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  21. Beyond the Family. Spatiality, Modes of (Re)production and Forme of Life

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)

    11.04.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  22. Thinking of Home Beyond the Family Model and the Supremacy of Man

    Costa, M. T. (Speaker)

    11.04.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  23. Dance, Diaspora, and the Artist's Subject: Edmundo Torres' China Diabla Tradition

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    03.04.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  24. Revolution Trouble: Massimo De Feo’s Nietzschean Communism

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    03.04.202505.04.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  25. Les arts de gouverner

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    27.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  26. Le néo-marxisme hérétique de Foucault et de Marx

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    26.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  27. Violencia de Estado y Violencia Colonial: Reverberaciones de Edicto Cambio de Nombre

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker), Cumes, A. (Speaker) & Boror, M. (Speaker)

    22.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  28. Witches, Carnival, Dance of Death. On the Artistic Collaboration between Eva Aeppli and Jean Tinguely.

    Kipke, A. (Speaker)

    21.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  29. Cancel Culture Context (Duke University, Durham)

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    18.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  30. Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates (Duke University - Leuphana University )

    Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)

    18.03.202519.03.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  31. Foucault en mots

    Nigro, R. (Speaker) & Polleri, M. (Speaker)

    08.02.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  32. LIAS Workshop: Beyond Restitution: Indigenous Practices, Museums and Heritage

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Organiser), Rother, L. (Organiser), Leeb, S. (Organiser), Felicitas Sabel, L. (Organiser), Moreschi, B. (Organiser) & Pitta, F. (Organiser)

    07.02.202508.02.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. Textile Ecologies Konferenz

    Houghteling, S. (Organiser) & Schulz, V.-S. (Organiser)

    05.02.202507.02.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  34. Matters of Scale: Afro-Eurasian Connectivity in Coastal East Africa

    Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)

    30.01.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  35. Leaving Art History? Contemporary Art and Material Practices

    Leeb, S. (Speaker) & Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    10.01.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  36. Digital Art History Consultant

    Romero, B. (Consultant)

    01.01.2025 → …

    Activity: Consultancy

  37. 2024
  38. Inquiétude de la philosophie, inactualité de la politique. Sur les divers usages de Nietzsche

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    17.12.202418.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  39. Für eine Philosophie der Übersetzung

    Costa, M. T. (Speaker)

    12.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  40. Le arti di governo di Foucault: un contributo per una lettura marxista eretica del neoliberalismo?

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    11.12.202412.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  41. Small Formation: Lines and Alternating Knots as Logistic Inversions

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    02.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  42. Gegenwart: Hannah Arendt & Susan Sontag

    Costa, M. T. (Speaker) & Kramer, S. (Speaker)

    26.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  43. Buchvorstellung: Dal rifiuto del lavoro alla moltitudine - La filosofia sovversiva di Toni Negri

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    21.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  44. Research Presentation from PhD Project "Materiality in Art Practices from Postwar Guatemala: Bodies, Soil, Meat, Cosmos"

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    21.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  45. PEAR - Provenance Event and Archives Reconciliation

    Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & van Ginhoven, S. (Speaker)

    14.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  46. Podiumsdiskussion: Über den Schmerz der Anderen - Postkolonialismus und multidirektionale Erinnerung.

    Kück, T. (Moderator) & Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    13.11.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  47. The Conjuncture of 'Cancel Culture': Relations of Gender and Sexuality in Times of Crisis (Universität Zürich)

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    06.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  48. Internationale Perspektiven an der Schnittstelle von Provenienzforschung, Data Science und Vermittlung

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    05.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  49. Webtalk Reihe: Kulturerbe und Gerechtigkeit: Die Herausforderung der Restitution

    Rother, L. (Speaker), Assmann, A. (Speaker) & Lupfer, G. (Speaker)

    05.11.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  50. Generalized Between Icon, Symbol and Index: The Physical Dimension in Isotype and Unicode

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  51. Foucault's and Marx' Heretical Neo-Marxism

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    18.10.202419.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  52. The Conjuncture of "Cancel Culture": Gender, Sexuality and "Free Speech" Conflicts Today (Universität Basel)

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    17.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  53. Provenienza e Intelligenza Artificiale (Provenance and Artificial Intelligence)

    Mariani, F. (Speaker)

    11.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  54. 'THREADS ARE VEINS' – On Magdalena Abakanowicz

    Kipke, A. (Speaker)

    10.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  55. What is Constituent in the Constituent Power? Limits and Strength of a Concept

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    10.10.202411.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  56. International Conference Dedicated to the Centenary of the H2SO4

    Ruhkopf, M. (Moderator), Tchelidze, K. (Organiser), Kipke, A. (Speaker) & Volz, J. (Speaker)

    09.10.202431.10.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  57. Toward Interconnected Object Histories: Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of Provenance Linked Open Data

    Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)

    09.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  58. VISU: Vagueness, Incompleteness, Subjectivity, and Uncertainty in Provenance Language Processing and Linked Open Data Modelling

    Mariani, F. (Speaker)

    03.09.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  59. University of Basel

    Trott, B. (Visiting researcher)

    01.09.202431.12.2024

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  60. Riss, Trauma, Heilung - Therapeutische Konstellationen um Emma Kunz

    Kipke, A. (Speaker)

    28.06.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  61. Memories of Paper: The Digital History of Pan

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    26.06.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  62. Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates

    Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)

    25.06.202429.06.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  63. The Practice of Decolonization

    Leeb, S. (Organiser), Drayton, R. (Organiser) & Morris, R. C. (Organiser)

    11.06.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  64. Beyond Jefferson's Futures.

    Leeb, S. (Chair)

    08.06.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  65. Emma Kunz: Drawing as a tool, Healing as a process

    Kipke, A. (Speaker)

    07.06.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  66. Expansive Museality: Camila Caris Seguel in Conversation with Sebastián Eduardo Dávila on Museo del Mundo and the Garífuna Nation

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker) & Caris Seguel, C. (Speaker)

    05.06.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  67. Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung

    Stubenrauch, H. (Organiser)

    16.05.202417.05.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  68. Tracing the Unknown: Learning from Provenance Data

    Rother, L. (Organiser) & Mariani, F. (Organiser)

    15.05.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  69. 5th Transregional Academy on Latin American Art 2024

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Participant)

    04.05.202412.05.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  70. Provenance of Provenance: Provenance LOD as Nanopublications

    Mariani, F. (Speaker)

    23.04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  71. Therapeutische Verfahren in künstlerisch-intervenierenden Praktiken

    Kipke, A. (Speaker) & Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)

    23.04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  72. Dancing in Connewitz – Transformation und Transfer in der Lehre ostdeutscher Fotografie

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker) & Klotzek, W. (Speaker)

    20.04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  73. Provenance Language Processing: A Human-in-the-Loop Perspective

    Mariani, F. (Speaker)

    09.04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  74. Emma Kunz, Eva Aeppli – A Closer Look at the Visionary

    Kipke, A. (Speaker)

    22.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  75. Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates

    Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)

    19.03.202423.03.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  76. Von der Renaissance-Perspektive zur Axonometrie: Textile Raumkonzeptionen

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    15.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  77. 112th Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America - CAA 2024

    Koss, M. (Chair) & Rother, L. (Chair)

    16.02.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  78. Tennis Moments in Theory, Writing, and Art.

    Kipke, A. (Speaker)

    09.02.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  79. From Text to Data: AI and Human Expertise in Provenance Linked Open Data

    Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)

    08.02.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  80. Quantity, Quality, Trust: Dilemmas and Strategies of Museum Documentation in the Age of AI

    Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)

    17.01.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  81. Towards Wikidata: How to Transform Provenance with AI

    Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Rother, L. (Speaker)

    13.01.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  82. Associazione Italiana Walter Benjamin (Publisher)

    Costa, M. T. (Editorial Board)

    2024

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  83. 2023
  84. Material Performance - by Olympia Bukkakis with Dagat Mera

    Trott, B. (Organiser)

    20.12.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  85. The Work of Drag - with Olympia Bukkakis

    Trott, B. (Organiser)

    20.12.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  86. La scénografie des "Immatériaux"

    Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)

    18.12.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  87. Podiumsdiskussion: Vom Unrechtskontext zur Kooperation? Über den Umgang mit dem kolonialen Erbe.

    Kück, T. (Moderator), Leeb, S. (Participant) & Kindata, D. (Participant)

    06.12.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  88. Vom Unrechtskontext zur Kooperation? Über den Umgang mit dem kolonialen Erbe

    Leeb, S. (Panel participant)

    06.12.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  89. Widerständigkeit der Immaterialien. Inszenierung und Eigensinn der Exponate in "Les Immatériaux" (Paris, 1985)

    Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)

    01.12.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  90. 'Branches of an Imaginary Marimba'. The Force of Syncretism in Contemporary Art

    Eduardo, S. (Speaker)

    22.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  91. Abstraktion in Bewegung – Überwindung des Gegenständlichen in der Zeit. Der abstrakte Film der deutschen Filmavantgarde

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    18.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  92. The Digital Image Research Program

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    16.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  93. The Digital Revolution as Counter Revolution

    Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Simon, J. (Speaker)

    16.11.202317.11.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  94. Syncretism in the study of contemporary art from the Americas

    Eduardo, S. (Speaker)

    15.11.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  95. Animals in Capitalist Societies: Conceptualizing the Anthropological Form

    Stefanoni, C. (Speaker) & Aloe, F. (Speaker)

    10.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  96. Una proposta forte per un pensiero debole

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    02.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  97. (Not) in Demand: The Berlin Museums and their Acquisitions from the Dresdner Bank 1935

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    01.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  98. Zoopolitics of Life and Death

    Stefanoni, C. (Organiser) & Timeto, F. (Organiser)

    17.10.202318.10.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  99. A Queer Case for the Basic Income at Our Current Conjuncture: Political Philosophy, Individual Rights and De-Individualisation

    Trott, B. (Keynote Speaker)

    10.10.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  100. The Grey Role of Animal (Dis)enhancement in Antispeciesism

    Stefanoni, C. (Speaker)

    09.10.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  101. Naive Kunst, Primitivismus und Gegen-Primitvismus

    Tchelidze, K. (Speaker)

    01.10.202331.03.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

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